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about

Jack Maniak is a new one-man project created in 2016 by French musician Jean-Philippe Ouamer. Living in Paris and also playing in a number of bands, Jean-Philippe felt the need to delve deeper in the Electronic music sounds. Born in the 70’s and having experienced the 80’s as a teenager his love of that era didn’t take long to manifest in his music giving birth to his Synthwave alter ego, Jack Maniak.

For a melodist, exploring this genre is a great opportunity and for Jean-Philippe the idea of writing music inspired by the 80’s but with a modern approach and twist soon turned out to be irresistible. Combining melodic synth leads, hard-rock/heavy rhythm guitars, guitar solos (when needed), big distorted basslines and groovy drum/bass patterns Jack Maniak debuts on JST with “Code 403”.

Filled with hidden references to the decade Jack Maniak grew up into (“Stripe Is Back” - Gremlins, “No Fate” - Terminator 2 and so on) “Code 403” is the story of a human teenager with special abilities who is called to face an alien invasion. Will he emerge victorious? Hard to tell but we do know he is humanity’s last and only hope.

credits

from "Code 403" LP,
released November 20, 2017
Written & Produced by Jean-Philippe Ouamer (Jack Maniak)